“The Churches in these parts are prospering greatly and are firm in the faith and increasing in numbers continually, the Church in and Brooklyn now numbers from 150 to 200 members and additions are being made every week. A General Conference was held in this on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, Elders present , , , , Elders Foster, Layne, Jenks, Brown, Benedict and , Priests present were A. Everett, [blank] Birge, and [blank] Vanvelver; many branches of the Church in the region round about, were represented, several hundred members in all, and mostly increasing— great doors are opened for preaching and crowded houses are the order of the day. I have also received letters from , and from , with joyful accounts of the spread of the work of the Lord. You would now find Churches of the Saints in , in , in Brooklyn, in , in , in , in , on , and in various other places all around us— Our Meetings are now held three times every Sabbath, in Columbia Hall, Grand Street, a few days east of the Bowery, it is very central and one of the best places in the City, it will hold nearly one thousand people and is well filled with attentive hearers; Bro. Winchester has a good hall well fitted up in where stated meetings are held. [p. 973]